During the first week of September 2024, three armed settlers arriving from the direction of the settlement of Maskiyyot and the outpost of Havat Eretz Shemesh, entered the community of Khirbet Wadi al-Faw in the northern Jordan Valley. The outpost was built near the community in the late 2010s. The three settlers walked around the homes of the last two families remaining in the coummunity.
On September 5, 2024, about eight settlers entered the community, walked around the tents, pepper sprayed residents, threatened them at gunpoint and told them they had to leave.
Fearing for their lives, brothers Walid Ka’abneh and Mahmoud Ka’abneh and their families took down their tents the next day (6 September 2024), loaded all their possessions onto their vehicle and drove to the ‘Atuf area to set up the tents. However, that same evening, soldiers and members of the Jordan Valley settlement regional council arrived and forbade them from setting up the tents. The families were forced to return to the community site in Wadi al-Faw, where settlers were waiting for them. The settlers shouted and swore at the families as they unloaded their vehicle. The settlers then left, and the families set up some of the tents. The next day, soldiers and members of the settlement regional council arrived, walked around the tents and accused Mahmoud Ka’abneh of assaulting the settlers the day before, but left without taking any action.
As of 9 September 2024, the two families are still at the community site, fearing for their lives and ready to leave at any moment.